19th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS 2019)
Stockholm, Sweden
July 16–20, 2019
General information: https://petsymposium.org/
Submission server: https://submit.petsymposium.org/2019.2/
This year PoPETs is running an experiment on consistency in the review process. Please read about it!
The annual Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS) brings together privacy experts from around the world to present and discuss recent advances and new perspectives on research in privacy technologies. The 19th PETS event will be organized by KTH and held in Stockholm, Sweden 2019 (exact dates TBD). Papers undergo a journal-style reviewing process and accepted papers are published in the journal Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PoPETs).
PoPETs, a scholarly, open access journal for timely research papers on privacy, has been established as a way to improve reviewing and publication quality while retaining the highly successful PETS community event. PoPETs is published by De Gruyter Open, the world's second largest publisher of open access academic content, and part of the De Gruyter group, which has over 260 years of publishing history. PoPETs does not have article processing charges (APCs) or article submission charges.
Submitted papers to PETS/PoPETs should present novel practical and/or theoretical research into the design, analysis, experimentation, or fielding of privacy-enhancing technologies.
Authors can submit papers to PoPETs four times a year, every three months, and are notified of the decisions about two months after submission. In addition to accept and reject decisions, papers may receive resubmit with major revisions decisions, in which case authors are invited to revise and resubmit their article to one of the following two issues. We endeavor to assign the same reviewers to revised versions. Papers accepted for an issue in the PoPETS 2019 volume must be presented at the symposium PETS 2019.
Submit papers for PoPETs 2019, Issue 2 at https://submit.petsymposium.org/2019.2/. Please see the submission guidelines and our FAQ for more information about the process.
Important Dates for PETS 2019
All deadlines are 23:59:59 American Samoa time (UTC-11)
Issue 1
Paper submission deadline: May 31, 2018 (firm)
Rebuttal period: July 9 – 11, 2018
Author notification: August 1, 2018
Camera-ready deadline for accepted papers and minor revisions (if accepted
by the shepherd): September 15, 2018
Issue 2
Paper submission deadline: August 31, 2018 (firm)
Rebuttal period: October 8 – 10, 2018
Author notification: October 31, 2018
Camera-ready deadline for accepted papers and minor revisions (if accepted
by the shepherd): December 15, 2018
Issue 3
Paper submission deadline: November 30, 2018 (firm)
Rebuttal period: January 7 – 9, 2019
Author notification: February 1, 2019
Camera-ready deadline for accepted papers and minor revisions (if accepted
by the shepherd): March 15, 2019
Issue 4
Paper submission deadline: February 28, 2019 (firm)
Rebuttal period: April 8 – 10, 2019
Author notification: April 30, 2019
Camera-ready deadline for accepted papers and minor revisions (if accepted
by the shepherd): June 15, 2019
Authors invited to resubmit with major revisions can submit the revised (full) paper two weeks after the stated deadline. Such papers must, however, be registered with an abstract by the usual deadline. All other papers than these major revision resubmissions must be submitted by the stated deadline, including papers submitted to and rejected from previous issues. To benefit from the two-week deadline extension, major revisions must be submitted to one of the two issues following the decision. Major revisions submitted to later issues are treated as new submissions, due by the regular deadline and possibly assigned to new reviewers.
Suggested topics include but are not restricted to:
- Behavioural targeting
- Blockchain technologies applied to privacy
- Building and deploying privacy-enhancing systems
- Crowdsourcing for privacy
- Cryptographic tools for privacy
- Data protection technologies
- Differential privacy
- Economics and game-theoretical approaches to privacy
- Empirical studies of privacy in real-world systems
- Forensics and privacy
- Human factors, usability and user-centered design for PETs
- Information leakage, data correlation and generic attacks to privacy
- Interdisciplinary research connecting privacy to economics, law, ethnography, psychology, medicine, biotechnology, human rights
- Location and mobility privacy
- Machine learning and privacy
- Measuring and quantifying privacy
- Mobile devices and privacy
- Obfuscation-based privacy
- Policy languages and tools for privacy
- Privacy in cloud and big-data applications
- Privacy in social networks
- Privacy-enhanced access control, authentication, and identity management
- Profiling and data mining
- Reliability, robustness, and abuse prevention in privacy systems
- Surveillance
- Systems for anonymous communications and censorship resistance
- Traffic analysis
- Transparency enhancing tools
- Web privacy
We also solicit Systematization of Knowledge (SoK) papers on any of this topics. To be suitable for publication, SoK articles must provide an added value beyond a literature review, such as novel insights, identification of research gaps, or challenges to commonly held assumptions.
- General Chairs (gc19@petsymposium.org)
- Panos Papadimitratos, KTH
- Simone Fischer-Hübner, Karlstad University
- Program Chairs/Co-Editors-in-Chief (pets19-chairs@petsymposium.org)
- Carmela Troncoso, EPFL
- Kostas Chatzikokolakis, CNRS
- Program Committee/Editorial Board:
- Ruba Abu-Salma, UCL
- Gunes Acar, Princeton University
- Sadia Afroz, ICSI / Berkeley
- William Aiello, University of British Columbia
- Mashael Al-Sabah, Qatar Computing Research Institute
- Mario Alvim, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
- Abdelrahaman Aly, KU Leuven
- Sebastian Angel, University of Pennsylvania
- Hadi Asghari, TU Delft
- Foteini Baldimtsi, George Mason University
- Shehar Bano, University College London
- Kevin Bauer, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
- Lujo Bauer, Carnegie Mellon University
- Igor Bilogrevic, Google
- Cecylia Bocovich, University of Waterloo
- Nikita Borisov, UIUC
- Bogdan Carbunar, Florida International University
- Melissa Chase, Microsoft Research
- Christopher Clifton, Purdue University
- Scott Coull, FireEye
- Jed Crandall, University of New Mexico
- Anupam Das, Carnegie Mellon University
- Rinku Dewri, University of Denver
- Claudia Diaz, KU Leuven
- Serge Egelman, ICSI / Berkeley
- Tariq Elahi, KU Leuven
- Ittay Eyal, Technion
- Julien Freudiger, Apple
- Sébastien Gambs, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
- Yossi Gilad, MIT
- Rachel Greendstat, Drexel University
- Jens Grossklags, Technical University Munich
- Amir Herzberg, Bar Ilan University / University of Connecticut
- Nick Hopper, University of Minnesota
- Amir Houmansadr, University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Kévin Huguenin, Université de Lausanne
- Rob Jansen, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
- Mobin Javed, Lahore University of Management Sciences and ICSI
- Philipp Jovanovic, EPFL
- Marc Juarez, KU Leuven
- Peter Kairouz, Stanford university
- Apu Kapadia, Indiana University Bloomington
- Aniket Kate, Purdue University
- Stefan Katzenbeisser, TU Darmstadt
- Florian Kerschbaum, University of Waterloo
- Boris Koepf, IMDEA Software Institute
- Yoshi Kohno, University of Washington
- Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, IIIT Delhi
- Alptekin Küpçü, Koç University
- Susan Landau, Tufts University
- Douglas Leith, Trinity College Dublin
- Janne Lindqvist, Rutgers university
- Chang Liu, Berkeley
- Wouter Lueks, EPFL
- Ashwin Machanavajjhala, Duke University
- Ivan Martinovic, University of Oxford
- Nick Mathewson, Tor Project
- Michelle Mazurek, University of Maryland
- Susan McGregor, Tow Center for Digital Journalism & Columbia Journalism School
- Sarah Meiklejohn, UCL
- Alan Mislove, Northeastern University
- Prateek Mittal, Princeton University
- Pedro Moreno Sanchez, Purdue University
- Takao Murakami, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
- Steven Murdoch, University College London
- Arvind Narayanan, Princeton University
- Melek Onen, EURECOM
- Cristina Onete, University of Limoges / XLIM
- Claudio Orlandi, Aarhus University
- Rebekah Overdorf, KU Leuven
- Catuscia Palamidessi, Inria
- Panagiotis Papadimitratos, KTH
- Charalampos Papamanthou, University of Maryland
- Paul Pearce, UC Berkley
- Fabian Prasser, TU Munich
- Bart Preneel, KU Leuven
- Ananth Raghunathan, Google
- Joel Reardon, University of Calgary
- Alfredo Rial, University of Luxembourg
- Franziska Roesner, University of Washington
- Thomas Roessler, Google
- Philipp Rogaway, UC Davis
- Stefanie Roos, University of Waterloo
- Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, University of Darmstadt
- Peter Schwabe, RU Nijmegen
- Zubair Shafiq, University of Iowa
- Reza Shokri, National University of Singapore
- Claudio Soriente, NEC
- Anna Squicciarini, Penn State University
- Theresa Stadler, Privitar
- Nick Sullivan, Cloudflare
- Paul Syverson, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
- Nina Taft, Google
- Doug Tygar, UC Berkeley
- Narseo Vallina, IMDEA Networks Institute
- Joris Van Hoboken, Vrije Universiteit Brussels / University of Amsterdam
- Eugene Vasserman, Kansas State University
- Tara Whalen, Google
- Philipp Winter, UC San Diego / CAIDA
- Matthew Wright, RIT
- Thomas Zacharias, University of Edinburgh
- Ben Zhao, University of Chicago
- HotPETs Chairs (hotpets18@petsymposium.org)
- Wouter Lueks, EPFL
- Susan McGregor, Columbia
- PET Award Chairs (award-chairs18@petsymposium.org)
- Matthew Wright, RIT
- Sponsorship Chair (sponsorship@petsymposium.org)
- Rachel Greenstadt, Drexel University
- Steven Murdoch, University College London
- Publicity Chairs (publicity19@petsymposium.org)
- Kat Hanna
- Rebekah Overdorf, KU Leuven
- Publications Chairs (publication19@petsymposium.org)
- Vasilios Mavroudis, University College London
- Philipp Winter, UC San Diego / CAIDA
- Video Chair (video19@petsymposium.org)
- Aaron Johnson, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
- Ryan Henry, Indiana University Bloomington
- Web Chairs
- Ian Goldberg, Univerity of Waterloo
- Kat Hanna
Caspar Bowden Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies
You are invited to submit nominations
for the 2019 Caspar Bowden Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing
Technologies. The Caspar Bowden PET award is presented annually to
researchers who have made an outstanding contribution to the theory, design,
implementation, or deployment of privacy enhancing technologies. It is awarded
at PETS and carries a cash prize as well as a physical award monument.
Any paper by any author written in the area of privacy enhancing technologies is eligible for nomination. However, the paper must have appeared in a refereed journal, conference, or workshop with proceedings published in the period from April 1, 2017 until March 30, 2019.
Andreas Pfitzmann Best Student Paper Award
The Andreas Pfitzmann PETS 2019 Best Student Paper Award will be selected at
PETS 2019. Papers written solely or primarily by a student who is presenting
the work at PETS 2019 are eligible for the award.
HotPETs
As with the last several years, part of the symposium will be devoted to
HotPETs — the "hottest," most exciting research ideas still in a
formative state. Further information will be published on the PETS 2019
website soon.